Example sentences of "[vb pp] the [noun sg] to [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So far , we have calculated the yield to maturity on the basis of semi-annual discounting of semiannual coupon payments . |
| 2 | This was the third year running that Booker Fitch had given the award to students on the HCIMA course , and it attracted the greatest number of entries to date . |
| 3 | He landed on the person 's head who had given the ring to Tim in front of him and was sent to court at Newgate . |
| 4 | There is the inevitable paperwork , but this is much less than for section police although , given the antipathy to paperwork in all police forces , it is surprising how the neighbourhood men welcome it on cold , wintry mornings . |
| 5 | Your Mr may have explained the position to Joe of Samuel McCauls Limited when he was over in Northern Ireland last September , but Joe did not inform me of your company 's position . |
| 6 | He 's just broken the news to parents in a letter to each family . |
| 7 | N.T.A. was considered the alternative to phosphates in washing powders at the start of the 80's , but it is now banned in the USA because it combines with heavy metals , as does E.D.T.A. In this way carcinogenic substances such as lead , mercury etc. , which normally remain at the bottom of lakes and rivers , are reintroduced to the water supply . |
| 8 | She 'd made the move to Hollywood with her Dutch artist husband Luc Leestemaker in the hope of breaking into the movie big-time . |
| 9 | This century has seen the rise to prominence on the world-stage of the ecumenical movement , which grew out of the need felt by Christians engaged in foreign mission to overcome the divisions between churches and denominations which made less and less sense in the missionary context . |
| 10 | He had offered the car to Hubert for the summer on condition that everyone promised never to stand on the running boards , because they were threatening to fall off . |
| 11 | I did n't see this as being primarily er a , a reflection on the day as such , although they have n't actually had the opportunity to sort of mull it over . |
| 12 | The taxi took them off to a small restaurant , and with everywhere seeming crowded to full capacity Fabia guessed , when they were straight away shown to a table , that Ven must have had the forethought to book in advance . |
| 13 | Superman is I do n't know erm , well same difference any way , but you see this is it , he 's not , you know , in that story , in that , in , in , in , in that sort of nonsense thing , he is not the same character at both times , he has n't got , when he 's walking along the street as Clarke Kent he has n't got the ability to whoosh through the air as Superman he 's Clarke Kent , not so Jesus , he was n't Jesus divine one moment , Jesus human the other but they were perfectly married at all time from his , from the time he was , he 's conception took place , so he was n't one thing one moment , you know and one thing the next , but there it was a perfect marriage if you like , the two , I was gon na say becoming one so that they were invisible , you could n't say of that 's it that 's the human nature of Jesus , that 's his diviner it ju , because the two were perfectly married , they were fused together so they really they became one . |
| 14 | Émile , enthusiastic about Jean-Claude 's work in general ( and me in particular ) , had sold the idea to Frontenac on the grounds of Jean-Claude 's association with la Sologne . |
| 15 | RANGERS have been handed the key to success in the European Cup . |
| 16 | I detest the painters : Antonio Lopez , who sincerely believes that ‘ all a painter can demand is that his work be exhibited with dignity ’ ; Luis Gordillo , who has condemned the blandishing to tourism of the previous presentation of ‘ Guernica ’ ; Eduardo Arroyo , who confuses the vulgarity of Madrid 's status as cultural capital with the praiseworthiness of a perverse act ; José María Sicilia who has mistaken ‘ Guernica ’ for a prostitute , maintaining that ‘ if one accepts a gift one must fulfil the conditions it implies ’ ; and lastly , Antoni Tàpies , father of so many aberrations , for whom the transferral of ‘ Guernica ’ is as if , ‘ finally , contemporary art had a father-figure ’ . |
| 17 | The government has belatedly recognised the danger to health of smoking and of passive smoking , but the health menace created by cars is far worse . |
| 18 | He had relegated the match to part of a bigger event as he thought people wanted more entertainment . |
| 19 | However , there is no reference to a requirement of ‘ suddenness ’ in the Homicide Act 1957 , and the courts have in effect restricted the defence to people with certain kinds of temperament . |
| 20 | Kuwaiti electoral law restricted the franchise to men aged 21 or over whose families had been in the Emirate since before 1921 , limiting the number of voters to 81,400 of the country 's 606,000 nationals . |
| 21 | In August the Moscow authorities restricted the sale to non-residents of scarce goods , following similar decisions in other cities . |
| 22 | The Blue Elephant , 4 Fulham Broadway , SW6 ( 01 385 6595 ) has brought the jungle to London in an imaginative series of bamboo-roofed spaces broken by walls of trellised greenery and even a lacquered bridge with a real stream trickling under it . |
| 23 | Labour candidates found themselves pledged to unilateral disarmament , withdrawal from the European Community and an economic policy that would have brought the country to bankruptcy within weeks . |
| 24 | He had proposed the visit to Burford on 17 May 1968 but had dropped out of the ill-fated return journey . |
| 25 | Sections of the Yemeni press linked the trouble to agitation by the main Islamic party , the Yemeni Rally for Reforms ( YRR ) . |
| 26 | Many a student has found the route to vegetarianism via depleted funds . |
| 27 | But she 'd found the answer to part of the puzzle , so surely it should be possible to solve it completely ? |
| 28 | Having found the key to changes in terms of the need to manage the politics of reproduction more effectively , she tends ( in theory , at least , since her own empirical analysis is rather more flexible ) to follow the perceived logic through , so that the conclusion is that local government is being reorganized more or less in line with changes in the organization of major capitalist enterprises . |
| 29 | Handcuffed to a plain-clothes policeman , he was driven the half-mile to court along a carefully-monitored route . |
| 30 | ‘ Leaving aside what you thought at the time , and looking back , could he have driven the car to Exeter after disposing of his wife ? ’ |